Denne er interessant, her forteller Bielsa myye:
Have you noticed opposition centre-backs splitting wider to bypass Bamford's press?
If you are referring to the last game, the two centre-backs and the two DMs of Arsenal, they were a problem for us throughout the first half. Of course, this situation didn’t surprise us. We imagined the way of resolving this and the opponent imagined the way of imposing this. IN the game against Leicester for example, the situation was the same. Two CBs and two DMs. In that game the solutions that we tried to implement were good. But in a moment in this game it didn’t work in the same manner. In games you can analyse segments of the game, but a game is more about totality. In the game against Arsenal there was 40 minutes on both halves where the opponents played better than us or predominantly better than us but we also had 40 minutes where we dominated Arsenal or were predominately better and there were around 15 minutes that were neutral. We had better possession that Arsenal. The dominance was similar.
You have to analyse the defensive production. Because it’s better to dominate while creating danger than not to dominate and not create danger. But if you look at the offensive production, this was also equal. Arsenal in the first half created double the chances we did. They had four chances and scored two goals, we had two and scored none. In the second half it was exactly the opposite. They created three chances and scored one goal, we created six and scored two. So the offensive production of the two teams was equal. How efficient in which they scored. Being 4-0 down to convert this to 4-2 and being close to scoring the third goal can’t be ignored.Normally when a team is losing 4-0 they lose by the same amount or by more goals. So the change of the team in the second half has a lot of value. It also has value that we had less elements at our disposal in the second half to be able to do this. Of course I’m worried about the amount of goals that we are conceding. As we go resolving certain problems, other problems start to appear but I don’t lose sight of trying to make a correct analyse of what actually happened in the game. The game doesn’t finish when Arsenal score the first goal. It finishes when Shackleton misses the chance for 4-3 in the 92nd minute.
When I evaluate our development I consider a lot of aspects. When a team is able to consolidate a goalkeeper like Meslier, a defender like Stuijk, and midfielder like Shackleton it means that the design of the group to have to count on a player Pascal, Meslier and to a lesser extend Shackleton, because Shackleton still hasn’t played a sufficient amount has a high economic price. You see how much a Premier League-standard goalkeeper, defender, midfielder/right-back cost. You’ll see that a club that invested £100m, they need to be able to count on players that they didn’t have to buy and to try and do this and to be able to do this the young players need minutes. And in some way this is what Leeds is trying to do.